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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/le-roi-demetrius-et-le-poete-menandre.html">Fable précédente</a></div>
<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 4, Fable 30</span><span class="fp-text">LES DEUX SOLDATS ET LE VOLEUR</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber IV, Fabula XXX</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">DUO MILITES ET LATRO</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">... Et son courage en eut bientôt fait justice.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Le voleur tué, le timide compagnon accourt,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">tire son glaive, jette son manteau par terre, puis s'écrie&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Laisse-le venir, il apprendra à qui il a affaire.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Celui qui s'était battu lui répondit&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Tu aurais dû m'aider tout à l'heure de ces belles paroles ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">elles m'eussent donné plus de force et je les aurais crues sincères ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">mais maintenant, rengaine ton épée et ta langue futile,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">garde-les pour en imposer à qui ne te connaît pas.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Quant à moi, j'ai vu avec quelle rapidité tu fuyais,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et sais à quoi m'en tenir sur ton courage.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">... Et <span class="fp-correction" title="vindicabit  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">vindicavit</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="vindicavit  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">vindicabit</span></span> sese forti dextera.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Latrone occiso timidus accurrit comes</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">stringitque gladium, deinde rejecta <span class="fp-correction" title="penula  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">paenula</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="paenula  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">penula</span></span>&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Cedo, inquit, illum ; jam curabo sentiat</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quos adtemtarit.&nbsp;» Tunc qui depugnaverat&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Vellem istis verbis saltem adjuvisses modo ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">constantior fuissem, vera existimans.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Nunc conde ferrum et linguam pariter <span class="fp-correction" title="futile  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">futilem</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="futilem  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">futile</span></span>,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ut possis alios ignorantes fallere.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Ego qui sum expertus quantis fugias viribus,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">scio <span class="fp-correction" title="quid  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">quam</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="quam  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">quid</span></span> virtuti non sit credendum tuae.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Cette fable s'adresse à celui qui fait le brave</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">lorsqu'il n'y a rien à craindre, et qui s'enfuit au premier péril.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Illi adsignari debet haec narratio</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">qui re secunda fortis est, dubia fugax.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/le-roi-demetrius-et-le-poete-menandre.html">Fable précédente</a></div></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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